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Fore River Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$1.6M
Granted FY2025still arriving
91
Grants FY2025still arriving
13
States reached
$128k
Largest
01What it funds
0197% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Environment$3.9MEducation$1.8MCivil Rights$1.8MHealth$901kPublic Benefit$855kArts & Culture$743kReligion$611kFood & Nutrition$486kOther$0
02FY2025 · 91 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k47 grants · $114k
  • $10k–50k34 grants · $654k
  • $50k–250k10 grants · $881k
$5,000
Median grant
13
States reached
$2.6M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Trust for Public Lands$128,000
Brennan Center for Justice$125,000
Earthjustice$120,000
Center for Science in the Public Inter$100,000
Maine Family Planning$100,000
Center for Reproductive Rights$77,000
Land and Garden Preserve$65,000
Maine Coast Heritage Trust$61,000
University of Maine$55,000
News Literacy Project$50,000
Guttmacher Institute$43,000
Constitutional Accountability Center$40,000
Friends of Acadia$36,000
St Timothy's School$35,000
The Ordway Center for the Performing Arts$30,000
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Its human-services grants (FY17–25, $270k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 76% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%Aftermath: $5k → 14%Climb Wyoming: $20k → 10%She Should Run: $25k → 14%Hobe Sound Early Learning Center: $15k → 10%Climb Wyoming: $10k → 10%Make a Wish Greater Bay Area: $2k → 10%She Should Run: $18k → 14%Hobe Sound Early Learning Center: $10k → 10%She Should Run: $10k → 14%Hobe Sound Early Learning Center: $10k → 10%She Should Run: $10k → 14%She Should Run: $10k → 14%She Should Run: $10k → 14%Mount Desert Island YMCA: $26k → 11%West Marin Senior Services: $1k → 8%Hobe Sound Early Learning Center: $5k → 10%West Marin Senior Services: $1k → 8%Hobe Sound Early Learning Center: $2k → 10%West Marin Senior Services: $1k → 8%Hobe Sound Early Learning Center: $2k → 10%Mount Desert Island YMCA: $6k → 11%Mount Desert Island YMCA: $2k → 11%Hobe Sound Early Learning Center: $1k → 10%West Marin Senior Services: $1k → 8%Mount Desert Island YMCA: $1k → 11%Osher Marin JCC: $6k → 8%Osher Marin JCC: $1k → 8%Osher Marin JCC: $1k → 8%Osher Marin JCC: $1k → 8%Osher Marin JCC: $1k → 8%Mount Desert Island YMCA: $1k → 11%Freeport Community Services: $13k → 7%Mount Desert Island YMCA: $500 → 11%Freeport Community Services: $11k → 7%Mount Desert Island YMCA: $500 → 11%Freeport Community Services: $10k → 7%Mount Desert Island YMCA: $500 → 11%Freeport Community Services: $6k → 7%Freeport Community Services: $4k → 7%Freeport Community Services: $3k → 7%Freeport Community Services: $3k → 7%Freeport Community Services: $3k → 7%American Red Cross: $4k → 14%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.

Which US states its grants reach

ME
VT
NH
MN
IL
WI
NY
MA
WY
PA
CT
CA
UT
VA
MD
NM
DC
AL
FL
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

90%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$11M · 131 repeat orgs$1.2M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +38% since the first grant, against +9% for those funded once.

131 repeat relationships: 73 still active in FY2025, 58 since wound down; 17 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

131
78

Total granted

$11M
$1.1M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+38%
+9%

Still filing today

71%
45%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 91% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $153k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
EducationArts & CultureEnvironmentHuman ServicesHealthCivil RightsOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as new. Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.

Backed again, and grew

  • THE TRUST FOR PUBLIC LAND
    8× · 2018–2025 · $1.1M · revenue +119%
  • EARTHJUSTICE
    8× · 2018–2025 · $705k · revenue +114%
  • FO
    Friends of Acadia
    8× · 2017–2025 · $684k · revenue +98%

Funded once

  • UO
    University of Virginia
    one grant, 2023 · $100k
  • HH
    HELPING HANDS OF ROUND POND
    one grant, 2024 · $60k · 30% of their budget
  • SH
    SOUTHWEST HARBOR HISTORICAL SOCIETYgraduated
    one grant, 2021 · $60k · revenue +104%
How this is measured

Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
Native Plant Trust Inc

The organization's mission is to conserve and promote new england's native plants to ensure healthy, biologically diverse landscapes.

Environment
2
Nantucket Conservation Foundation Inc

The nantucket conservation foundation owns, protects, and stewards over 9,000 acres of land and coastal shoreline, conserves nantucket's rare and significant natural resources, and engages in impactful ecological research to inform…

Environment
3
United States Naval Institute

Provide an independent forum for those who dare to read, think, speak, and write to advance the professional, literary, and scientific understanding of sea power and other issues critical to global security.

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4
Npr Foundation

The npr foundation ("foundation") is organized and operated exclusively for the benefit of its sole supported organization, national public radio, inc. ("npr inc."). the foundation supports npr inc. through various activities such as…

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5
Eastern National

Eastern national promotes the public's understanding and support of america's national parks and other public trust partners by providing quality educational experiences, products and services.

Recreation & Sports
6
Islesboro Islands Trust

The mission of Islesboro Islands Trust is to enhance the quality of residents' lives through the preservation of open space, educate all residents as to the value of the island's natural ecosystems, and act as an environmental advocate on…

Philanthropy
7
Midcoast Conservancy

The mission of Midcoast Conservancy is to protect vital lands and waters on a scale that matters and to inspire wonder and action on behalf of all species and the Earth.

Environment
8
Maine Farmland Trust

Maine Farmland Trust protects farmland, supports farmers, and advances the future of farming.

Food & Nutrition
9
Great Peninsula Conservancy

Preserve in perpetuity the natural habitats, rural landscapes, and open spaces of the great peninsula of washington's puget sound.

Environment
10
Boston Architectural College

The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.

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11
Marine Science Institute

The institutes mission is to cultivate a responsibility for the natural environment and our human communities through interdisciplinary science education.

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12
Preserve Rhode Island

Preserve ri's vision is a future where historic preservation creates positive change, making our diverse cultures, the environment, and the economy better for the people who live, visit and work in rhode island. preserve ri's mission is to…

Arts & Culture
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Community Foundation of Jackson Hole; the most unlike its peers is Portland Esl Scholarship Fund. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

139 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 139 of the 228 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
34
Early backer (in before they grew)
137/139
Grantees still filing
91/139
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Brennan Center: $679,000 · OtherBrennan CenterMount Desert Land and Garden Preserve: $436,000 · OtherMount Desert Land and Garden PreserveACLU of Maine Foundatiom: $325,000 · OtherACLU of Maine FoundatiomGuttmacher Institute Inc: $205,000 · OtherPULITZER CENTER ON CRISIS REPORTING: $200,000 · Other+122 more: $3,606,296 · Other+122 moreTHE TRUST FOR PUBLIC LAND: $1,095,500 · EnvironmentTHE TRUST FOR PUBLIC LANDEARTHJUSTICE: $705,000 · EnvironmentEARTHJUSTICEFriends of Acadia: $683,500 · EnvironmentFriends of AcadiaMaine Coast Heritage Trust: $447,000 · EnvironmentMaine Coast Heritage Trust+12 more: $399,000 · Environment+12 moreTHE NEWS LITERACY PROJECT INC: $340,000 · EducationTHE NEWS LITER…CORPORATION OF ST TIMOTHY'S SCHOOL: $270,000 · EducationCORPORATION OF…WILLIAM J BRENNAN CENTER FOR JUSTICE INC: $225,000 · EducationWILLIAM J BREN…ST MARK'S SCHOOL OF SOUTHBOROUGH INC: $163,000 · EducationST MARK'S SCHO…TRUSTEES OF DEERFIELD ACADEMY: $120,000 · EducationTRUSTEES OF DE…THE HOLTON ARMS SCHOOL: $88,000 · EducationTHE HOLTON ARM…Trustees of Tufts College: $75,000 · EducationAMERICAN CONSTITUTION SOCIETY FOR LAW & POLICY: $57,500 · Education+13 more: $252,000 · Education+13 moreTHE CENTER FOR REPRODUCTIVE RIGHTS INC: $467,000 · Civil RightsSTATE INNOVATION EXCHANGE: $70,000 · Civil RightsCENTER FOR AMERICAN PROGRESS: $30,000 · Civil RightsGRANDMOTHERS FOR REPRODUCTIVE RIGHTS: $24,000 · Civil Rights+4 more: $18,000 · Civil RightsFAMILY PLANNING ASSOCIATION OF MAINE INC: $397,500 · HealthMOUNT DESERT ISLAND HOSPITAL: $57,000 · HealthPLANNED PARENTHOOD OF SOUTH FLORIDA AND THE TREASURE COAST INC: $25,500 · HealthJUPITER ISLAND MEDICAL CLINIC INC: $18,000 · Health+2 more: $24,500 · HealthCENTER FOR SCIENCE IN THE PUBLIC INTEREST: $400,000 · Food & NutritionMARIN AGRICULTURAL LAND TRUST: $26,000 · Food & NutritionLOAVES AND FISHES OF HOBE SOUND INC: $20,000 · Food & Nutrition+1 more: $14,000 · Food & NutritionORDWAY CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS: $182,500 · Arts & CultureMAINE PRESERVATION: $56,000 · Arts & CultureREADFIELD UNION MEETING HOUSE CO: $30,000 · Arts & CultureBell Hill Meeting House Association: $29,278 · Arts & CultureMount Desert Festival of Chamber Music: $29,000 · Arts & CultureJackson Hole Childrens Museum Inc: $20,500 · Arts & Culture+12 more: $98,000 · Arts & Culture
Other$5,451,296Environment$3,330,000Education$1,590,500Civil Rights$609,000Health$522,500Food & Nutrition$460,000Arts & Culture$445,278

Showing the 200 largest grantees by grant value.

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetTHE TRUST FOR PUBLIC LAND: $1,095,500 over 8y, 0.2% of budgetEARTHJUSTICE: $705,000 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetFriends of Acadia: $683,500 over 8y, 6.8% of budgetTHE CENTER FOR REPRODUCTIVE RIGHTS INC: $467,000 over 7y, 0.2% of budgetMaine Coast Heritage Trust: $447,000 over 9y, 0.5% of budgetMount Desert Land and Garden Preserve: $436,000 over 9y, 2.5% of budgetCENTER FOR SCIENCE IN THE PUBLIC INTEREST: $400,000 over 6y, 0.8% of budgetFAMILY PLANNING ASSOCIATION OF MAINE INC: $397,500 over 6y, 0.8% of budgetTHE NEWS LITERACY PROJECT INC: $340,000 over 6y, 1.7% of budgetCORPORATION OF ST TIMOTHY'S SCHOOL: $270,000 over 7y, 0.4% of budgetWILLIAM J BRENNAN CENTER FOR JUSTICE INC: $225,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetGuttmacher Institute Inc: $205,000 over 6y, 0.2% of budgetPULITZER CENTER ON CRISIS REPORTING: $200,000 over 9y, 0.4% of budgetORDWAY CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS: $182,500 over 7y, 0.2% of budgetCONSTITUTIONAL ACCOUNTABILITY CENTER: $165,000 over 6y, 1.1% of budgetST MARK'S SCHOOL OF SOUTHBOROUGH INC: $163,000 over 6y, 0.2% of budgetCOLLEGE OF THE ATLANTIC: $153,000 over 7y, 0.4% of budgetTRUSTEES OF DEERFIELD ACADEMY: $120,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetSEEDS OF PEACE INC: $120,000 over 5y, 0.6% of budgetGROWSMART MAINE: $110,000 over 6y, 12% of budgetNATUREBRIDGE: $103,000 over 9y, 0.1% of budgetTHE CENTER FOR PUBLIC INTEGRITY: $90,000 over 5y, 0.4% of budgetTHE HOLTON ARMS SCHOOL: $88,000 over 9y, 0.1% of budgetSHE SHOULD RUN: $83,000 over 6y, 3.5% of budgetCENTER FOR POPULAR DEMOCRACY INC: $75,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetTrustees of Tufts College: $75,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetSTATE INNOVATION EXCHANGE: $70,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetBAR HARBOR HISTORICAL SOCIETY INC: $64,500 over 7y, 5.3% of budgetTHE NATURE CONSERVANCY: $62,000 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetBOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF MARTIN COUNTY: $60,000 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetHELPING HANDS OF ROUND POND: $60,000 over 1y, 30% of budgetSEDGWICK-BROOKLIN HISTORICAL SOCIETY: $60,000 over 2y, 22% of budgetAMERICAN CONSTITUTION SOCIETY FOR LAW & POLICY: $57,500 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetMOUNT DESERT ISLAND HOSPITAL: $57,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetMAINE PRESERVATION: $56,000 over 6y, 3.8% of budgetHOBE SOUND COMMUNITY CHEST INC: $51,000 over 7y, 0.5% of budgetFREEPORT COMMUNITY SERVICES: $50,500 over 8y, 1.0% of budgetTHE BANNER LAKE CLUB INC: $50,000 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA LAW SCHOOL FOUNDATION: $50,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetHOBE SOUND CHILD CARE CENTER INC: $44,000 over 7y, 0.5% of budgetNORTH YARMOUTH ACADEMY: $40,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetMt Desert Island YMCA: $37,500 over 8y, 1.5% of budgetDEMOS A NETWORK FOR IDEAS AND ACTION LTD: $37,000 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetTHE EVERGLADES FOUNDATION INC: $37,000 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetLawyers' Committee for Civil Rights Under Law: $35,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetTHE GUARDIANS OF MARTIN COUNTY INC: $35,000 over 7y, 2.1% of budgetFRIENDS OF CEDAR MESA: $35,000 over 7y, 0.7% of budgetTHE TRUSTEES OF THE SMITH COLLEGE: $30,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budget
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

  • Who funds THE TRUST FOR PUBLIC LAND ↗
  • Who funds EARTHJUSTICE ↗
  • Who funds Friends of Acadia ↗
  • Who funds THE CENTER FOR REPRODUCTIVE RIGHTS INC ↗
  • Who funds Maine Coast Heritage Trust ↗
  • Who funds Mount Desert Land and Garden Preserve ↗
  • Who funds CENTER FOR SCIENCE IN THE PUBLIC INTEREST ↗
  • Who funds FAMILY PLANNING ASSOCIATION OF MAINE INC ↗
  • Who funds THE NEWS LITERACY PROJECT INC ↗
  • Who funds CORPORATION OF ST TIMOTHY'S SCHOOL ↗
  • Who funds WILLIAM J BRENNAN CENTER FOR JUSTICE INC ↗
  • Who funds Guttmacher Institute Inc ↗
  • Who funds PULITZER CENTER ON CRISIS REPORTING ↗
  • Who funds ORDWAY CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS ↗
  • Who funds CONSTITUTIONAL ACCOUNTABILITY CENTER ↗
  • Who funds ST MARK'S SCHOOL OF SOUTHBOROUGH INC ↗
  • Who funds COLLEGE OF THE ATLANTIC ↗
  • Who funds TRUSTEES OF DEERFIELD ACADEMY ↗
  • Who funds SEEDS OF PEACE INC ↗
  • Who funds GROWSMART MAINE ↗
  • Who funds NATUREBRIDGE ↗
  • Who funds THE CENTER FOR PUBLIC INTEGRITY ↗
  • Who funds THE HOLTON ARMS SCHOOL ↗
  • Who funds SHE SHOULD RUN ↗
  • Who funds CENTER FOR POPULAR DEMOCRACY INC ↗
  • Who funds Trustees of Tufts College ↗
  • Who funds STATE INNOVATION EXCHANGE ↗
  • Who funds BAR HARBOR HISTORICAL SOCIETY INC ↗
  • Who funds THE NATURE CONSERVANCY ↗
  • Who funds BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF MARTIN COUNTY ↗
  • Who funds HELPING HANDS OF ROUND POND ↗

Co-funders

Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

Maine Community Foundation IncME70.3× affinity45 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Maine Community Foundation Inc · Colket Family Foundation · Ethel D Colket Foundation · Davis Family Foundation · Elmina B Sewall Foundation · Hattie a and Fred C Lynam Trust · Gerrish H Milliken Foundation 009209-009 · The Widgeon Point Charitable Foundation · Morton-Kelly Charitable Trust · Horizon Foundation Inc · Stephen & Tabitha King Foundation Inc · The Bessemer Giving Fund

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Fore River Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Fore River Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

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’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 160%4%15%34%60%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 2%
  • Trustees of Tufts College: 13% of income from government
  • Planned Parenthood of South Florida and the Treasure Coast Inc: 6% of income from government
  • Planned Parenthood of Northern New England Inc: 2% of income from government
  • Boys & Girls Club of Martin County: 2% of income from government
  • Grub Street Inc: 2% of income from government
  • The Trustees of the Smith College: 1% of income from government
  • The Banner Lake Club Inc: 1% of income from government
  • Proprietors of the Boston Athenaeum: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
16get no government money at all
35report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
typical government reliance, FY20–25
How this is measured
Government income is each org’s traced federal awards (USASpending grants and contracts) plus state payments (open checkbooks) as a share of its total revenue (IRS Form 990); the self-reported government-grant line (990 line 1e) is carried for cross-check: a grantee that reports government grants we could not trace to a source is left off the chart rather than shown as receiving none. An association, not a claim that a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than a census; state records exist for 9 states, so a grantee outside them shows no state figure (dimmed) rather than a false zero. Federal award amounts are obligations, which can span years, so a single-year share is indicative. 990 filings lag 12 to 24 months.
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How do I get to Fore River Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Fore River Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 228 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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